Serf - yes, but he got his wings on the APC and never actually passed out at Shawbury like every other RAF helicopter pilot. He is probably quite competent now but he played the system and got a helicopter slot that was therefore denied to someone else who hadn't already failed training.
Bizarrely I believe he wears RAF not AAC wings.
Wg13, but the RAF Flt Lt didn't have to go back to Wallop for further trg before being allowed to be Ac Comd - as soon as the OCU was finished he was ready to rock.
As for tactics - could you remind me when the AAC started EW trg? The SH force had been doing it for years which is why we were allowed to play in GW1.
Things are different now, the AAC has had to raise its game significantly to operate the Apache - but who were the first guys to go on AH? All the A2 QHIs, then the B1 QHI's and eventually when they had run out of beefers, the senior line pilots.....any Cpl pilots amongst them? No, didn't think so.